<div dir="ltr">I would love to teach a robot-building workshop with those Turtles. (Possibly several workshops, given that there are 60?!) If we have space and transport for them, I will happily volunteer my time.<div><br>
</div><div>- merlin<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Andrew Byrne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@pachakutech.com" target="_blank">andrew@pachakutech.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Things I learned today:<br>-There was a video game crash of 1983<br>-This was the second video game crash<br>
--dru<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 6:40 AM, John Withers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwithers@reddagger.org" target="_blank">jwithers@reddagger.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On Sat, 2013-01-19 at 11:42 -0800, Peter Jansen wrote:<br>
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> I remember seeing the Topos on TV when I was young -- It'd be fun to<br>
> have one wandering the lab, perhaps hacked to do some interesting<br>
> science.<br>
><br>
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</div>Yeah, I am thinking the exact same thing about one of those HEROs, which<br>
I deeply coveted when I was young, and hence my quick posting about us<br>
getting this stuff. I would love to add to the original and have it<br>
doing interesting things (although I think I would probably take some<br>
care to keep the original parts involved or hack it in such a way that<br>
it could be fully restored to original condition easily).<br>
<br>
But I am having some slight misgivings the more I think it through. A<br>
couple of the pieces on this list are unique or close enough. These<br>
things are part of our historical culture. And the parts are from the<br>
80's and while they can be pressed into service, they aren't insanely<br>
useful for modern projects. Given the nature of our folks, we are<br>
obviously going to either reuse the parts or highly modify these units,<br>
and with a few of them that would be nearly criminal. It would be like<br>
ripping the screen out of a Vectrex to use it as a status display for a<br>
quad copter sensor package or something. (and if anyone here knows where<br>
there is a vectrex collecting dust, you can feel free to talk to me<br>
about it...)<br>
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-j<br>
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